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February 22, 2007

Cleaning the sock drawer, Bahn to Byler

I gave up book-buying for Methodist Lent.
Again, if anyone sees something they want my opinion about, ask.

Bahn - Paleolithic weaving, a contribution from Chauvet
Bailey and Crandall - Random generators and normal numbers
Baker - Ayutthaya rising, from land or sea
Bakker - An early vocabulary of British Romani (1616), a linguistic analysis
Bakos - HAT-P-1b, a large-radius, low-density exoplanet transiting one member of a stellar binar...
Balbi - Voyage to Pegu, and observations there, circa 1583
Banerjee - The (mis)allocation of capital
Banerjee and Duflo - Growth theory through the lens of development economics
Barb - Antaura, the mermaid and the devil's grandmother, a lecture
Barzilai - A genotype of exceptional longevity is associated with preservation of cognitive func...
Bauer - An Early Eocene gecko from Baltic amber and its implications for the evolution of gecko ...
Baumeister - Freudian defense mechanisms and empirical findings in modern social psychology, rea...
Bawa - Plant-pollinator interactions in tropical rain forests
Beattie - Floral evolution in viola
Beaulier - Explaining Botswana's success, the critical role of post-colonial policy
Beckwith - Thomas Jefferson 'Stout' Jackson, Texas strongman

Dotty Dumpling's Dowry, an excellent hamburger place in Madison, Wisconsin, used to have a picture of this gentleman hanging on the wall. I had always assumed he was an early Badger football hero. Not the case: he was a record-setting strongman on the carnival circuit. Also, he was one of the five or six Anglos in south Texas in the early twentieth century who actually gave a damn about Mexican-Americans.

Beekley and Watts - Combat trauma experience with the United States Army 102nd Forward Surgical ...
Bell - The development of categorical logic
Bellin and Fleury - Planar and braided proof-nets for multiplicative linear logic with mix
Bender - Chance CVC correspondences in unrelated languages
Benitez - Evidence for nearby supernova explosions
Bernstein - Wrestling with Wal-Mart, tradeoffs between profits, prices, and wages
Bertomeu Snchez - Mateu Orfila i Rotger (1787-1853), science, medicine and crime in the ninetee...
Beutler - G6PD deficiency
Bilson-Thompson - Quantum gravity and the standard model
Binstock - Postscript, Alois Riegl in the presence of 'The Nightwatch'
Bisin - Religious intermarriage and socialization in the United States
Bjørk - Exploring the Galaxy using space probes
Blackmon - Back to the USSR, why the past does matter in explaining differences in the economic ...
Blau - A macrosociological theory of social structure
Blau - Heterogeneity and intermarriage
Blau - The hierarchy of authority in organizations
Blench - The Austronesians in Madagascar and on the East African coast, surveying the evidence f...
Blockmans - Logistics of warfare in central Italy, 1527-1530
Blute - Discrete quantum causal dynamics
Boone - Incarnations of the Aztec supernatural, the image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europ...
Booth - Hitting apartheid for six, the politics of the South African sports boycott
Borovik - Mathematics under the microscope, notes on cognitive aspects of mathematical practice ...
Borschberg - The seizure of the Santa Catarina revisited - the Portuguese empire in Asia, VOC po...
Boscaro - An introduction to the private correspondence of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Botev - The ethnic composition of families in Russia in 1989, insights into the Soviet 'National...
Botev - Where east meets west, ethnic intermarriage in the former Yugoslavia, 1962 to 1989
Boursot - The evolution of house mice
Boutin - Molecular tools to study melatonin pathways and actions
Bouzy and Cazenave - Computer Go, an AI oriented survey
Bovens - The rhythm method and embryonic death
Bowd - The republic of ideas, Venice, Florence, and the defence of liberty, 1525-1530
Bowman - 'Legitimate commerce' and peanut production in Portuguese Guinea, 1840s-1880s

Mae Aurelia Correia and Caetano Nozolini, Portuguese Guinea's fun couple! I was reading a wire service story about traditional matri-dominant wedding customs on islands off the west African coast. While not fully matriarchal -- anthropologists have yet to find a traditional society that was -- it's closer than most. And what do you get when you combine that with nineteenth century African history? You got it: African woman slave traders. Nozolini was her half-Italian husband.

Bragg - Visual-kinetic communication in Europe before 1600, a survey of sign lexicons and finger...
Brannon - The representation of numerical magnitude
Bresnahan - Competition and collusion in the American automobile industry, the 1955 price war
Bressoud and Propp - How the alternating sign matrix conjecture was solved
Briffa - Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past...
Bromm and Larson - The first stars
Brown - Reading Indian music, the interpretation of seventeenth-century European travel-writing ...
Brown - The technology and application of free-space power transmission by microwave beam (1974)
Brown - Three themes in the work of Charles Ehresmann, local-to-global, groupoids, higher dimens...
Brown and Porter - Category theory, an abstract setting for analogy and comparison
Brunini - Origin of the obliquities of the giant planets in the mutual interactions in the early...
Bryer - The Pontic Greeks before the Diaspora
Bullock - The stability of climate on Venus (PhD thesis, 1997)
Bullock and Grinspoon - The recent evolution of climate on Venus
Butskhrikidze - The consonant phonotactics of Georgian
Byler - Pacifying the Moros, American military government in the southern Philippines, 1899-1913

You know, applying the American experience in the Philippines to current American escapades is a really dumb idea... unless what you're really interested in is killing strangers. If so, why not just get a van?

This particulary division of your sock drawer could benefit from a few "Berry, Michael V." entries, IMO. After all, how many living Mathematical Physicists can you name who have had their most notable achievements memorialized in a "Zippy the Pinhead" cartoon ?
(http://suitsmac.chem.wayne.edu/~r4/asweb public_html/suitsgroup/pages/ziptemp.html).